This Week I Have Been Mostly Playing…
What the Golf on Nintendo Switch
The last month has been tough, with an overriding sense of guilt of not doing enough writing. I want to but it’s much harder to motivate yourself when tied to a desk at home. It’s not even just writing the words, I need to make changes to my website and upgrade it. Things need to evolve!
Part of that comes from looking at gaming websites and how they do things. I love Rock Paper Shotgun and Eurogamers simple Bestest Best / Essential. Slapping one of these on my reviews would look better and be a far easier message. But I tend to try and play some esoteric stuff which is very hard to straight up recommend to everyone.
Well this week it is far easier. What The Golf? Is just fucking brilliant. One of the funniest you will ever play. I completely recommend it to you all! And look, no golf puns. (Which the game is full of).
I suppose I should write a little more… It is a Golf game and I am sure that will put a lot of people off. But it completely subverts what you think Golf is and will continually surprise you. It starts off with you hitting a ball into a hole and then goes from there. You are very quickly not hitting balls. Part of the joy of this game is discovering it for yourself and there's no way I want to spoil that.
The really clever part is how they parody many other games brilliantly. It has some of my all time favourite games in here and it’s almost freaky how well they recreate them. Again I don't want to say too much but kudos!
There is a single player campaign that is the main chunk of the game, containing a load of ‘holes’ that have three separate levels. The inventiveness of these levels are impressive though the difficulty curve is all over the shop. For the most part most holes are very forgiving but some are so damn hard!
The co-op mode is a lot of fun, pitting two local players against each other over ten randomly selected levels. I would recommend playing most of the single player campaign first so as to not ruin some surprises that get thrown in in co-op. Every level you win gives you a life that is used in the final showdown. You must battle in an area which tends to be much harder than any of the prior holes. It’s a lot of fun but the experienced will usually triumph.
Overall I don't think I have gasped out loud and shout wow as much to this game since maybe Jazzpunk. I heartily recommend this to you all. My favourite game this year par none!
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